Gem Collection (page 8)

Demantoid garnet cut stone
Demantoid is a variety of andradite garnet. It is green in colour, sometimes with yellow shading

Faceted chrysoberyl
Two cut stones of the gemstone chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide). This stone is also known as cats eyes

Brown and blue zircons
Natural brown and heat-treated blue zircons. Zircon comprises of (zirconium silicate) and is not the same as the artificial gem cubic zircona

Chrysoberyl cats eyes
Two stones of Chrysoberyl (beryllium aluminum oxide), illustrating the similarity the gemstone has with a cats eye

Zircon crystal
Zircon comprises of (zirconium silicate) and is not the same as the artificial gem cubic zircona. Specimen is from Norway

Garnet cut stones
Grossular (calcium aluminum silicate) and demantoid cut gems resting on andradite (calcium iron silicate) crystals. All of which are types of garnet

Quartz box and carved lizard
An ornamental box set with different quartz stones (silicon dioxide) including a large central citrine together with a carved lizard in cat s-eye quartz

Fluorescent group
A group including amber, ruby, ivory, fluorite and opal photographed in ultra violet light. See 179 for the same group in white light

The new excursion steamer Columbia: gem of the ocean. Date c1877. The new excursion steamer Columbia: gem of the ocean. Date c1877

England / Wroxton
Wroxton, Oxfordshire, a gem of the Cotswolds, a perfect village, with stone-built thatched cottages. Date: early 1960s

England / Rye 1939
This beautiful half-timbered building in Mermaid Lane, Rye, Sussex, England, is the Old Hospital. A true gem of Old England which has slumbered throughout the centuries. Date: 1939

The Gem Variety Theatre and dance hall, pioneer days in Deadwood

Sappho (On a Gem)
SAPPHO Greek poet

Gem Freezer
THE GEM FREEZER (American) is the best in the world - the maker says so !

Digging for diamonds in South Africa
People digging for diamonds in South Africa

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